Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

Ray Zone, king of 3D comics.

Jack Gilbert, great poet; lived to 87.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jack-gilbert#about

Pete Namlook :(

Oh man, that sucks. He was a bit older than I thought, but still way too young to die.

Boris Strugatsky died at 79 a few days ago :(

macho camacho

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/-Ranchie--McLean-is-dead_13044689

Jamaican reggae bassist

TV's "Mr. Food", Art Ginsburg

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/tv-chef-art-ginsburg-mr-food-dies-81-155816058.html

RIP, Larry Hagman.

damn. Liked him in Fail Safe.

adios, JR

RIP, Larry. Was just reading Space Oddities: Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000, which talked a lot about your old show.

Boris Strugatsky died at 79 a few days ago :(

Liked Hagman in both Nixon (bad guy) and Primary Colors (good guy).

Oh, no. I'm a big Hagman fan (wearing my J.R. Ewing t-shirt as I read/write here). He still brought it in this recent Dallas revival, but the fact that they shot around his cancer treatments as much as they did didn't seem to bode well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7A0cXogW0

RIP JR

RIP Larry, seemed like a fun guy

... also reliably watchable in whatever he was in, he was really good in this:

http://www.iphotoscrap.com/Image/522/1297150974-m.jpg

His appearance on 'Shooting Stars' is rightly famous, Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian said Hagman 'looked like a man in a nightmare'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5UTHaRs8U&hd=1

Never forget

http://tgda.vcmedia.vn/Images/Uploaded/Share/2009/03/20090314095339499/220.jpg

Former Who co-manager (and brother of actor Terence) Chris Stamp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKpIEnBSwQ

You co-starred with Lauren Bacall in the 1973 made-for-TV movie “Applause.” Tell me why you licked her the first time you met her.

I had been rehearsing with her stand-in for two weeks before I met her, and I was told, “Do not kiss her, and do not touch her if you can help it,” and it was driven into my mind. So I am ushered into her dressing room, and she presented her hand kind of like the Dowager Empress Maria Theresa of the Austro-Hungarian empire would offer her hand. I just couldn’t resist it. I licked her from her hand up to her elbow. She held it in check very well, though I do think it may have colored our relationship

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/magazine/the-rollicking-life-of-larry-hagman.html?_r=0

Larry DIRECTED B!tB?? That's quite a "guest-star" cast too.

He's terrific in Harry and Tonto.

Deborah Raffin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/arts/television/deborah-raffin-actress-and-publisher-is-dead-at-59.html

Looking over her credits, I don't think I saw her in anything. But I do remember her.

Had no idea Hagman was such a leftie. That's awesome.

I am angry at Larry Hagman because he couldn't quit drinking.

I don't know what the hell "Shooting Stars" is, but I imagine that's the sort of clip Japanese people play to show how fucked up Western game shows are.

Shooting Stars was the attempt to transfer Vic & Bob to game show (see also Families At War), which they used as an attempt to launch Ulrika Jonsson's comedy career. The best period was the first three (?) series, the Mark Lamarr era, especially John Peel trying to climb into a baby's pram but a late highlight was Donald Cox The Sweaty Fox.

vic & bob is basically surreal/non sequitur humour combined with running gags that you couldn't possibly get unless you've seen loads more of their stuff

the first vic & bob exposure i ever had was concert footage in which they said 'and now, here's the man with the stick' and a man walked on stage with a stick and the crowd went UTTERLY BONKERS and then the man with the stick left again. my face at the time == hagman's face upthread

Ah, see, I love the Man With The Stick. Graham Lister on Novelty Island doing Three Laughs With Lard was the first real WTF moment for the viewing public I think.

Maudlin and full of self-pity. He's magnificent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEOsVofRZk

i feel like hags was at death's door ever since dallas ended, feel like there was a time when the tabs were showing him exiting hospitals and crowing about "months to live", and this was pre-"nixon". good for him for hanging around to a respectable age tbh.

He looks older in that Primary Colors than he did last week.

Michael Dunford of the progressive band Renaissance. Had no idea he was in the Nashville Teens too.

http://www.progrockmag.com/news/renaissance-guitarist-michael-dunford-dies/

RIP strugatsky

Frank Barsalona

One of Barsalona's lasting legacies was to see that musicians' compensation and treatment improved whereby they could earn a good portion of their living through touring and beyond selling records. He is also credited with vastly improving the fan experience upgrading the quality of live rock performances.

Almost as important to sport in the 20th century as Robinson, Ruth, or Ali:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ex-players-association-exec-marvin-miller-dead-95-article-1.1208710?localLinksEnabled=false

damn.

possibly the most significant person I have shared an elevator with.

dang RIP

Mickey "Guitar" Baker, of Mickey & Sylvia and who knows how many classic blues and R&B sessions.

Great photo/interview here, from a few years ago: http://jimherrington.tumblr.com/post/16519854865/mickey-baker-musician-toulouse-france-c-jim

aw :(

I was just listening to Love is Strange this morning

"Love Is Strange" was great in Casino. Classic album cover:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tyNeUNytv6s/TzEtE_4JrJI/AAAAAAAAHpA/esOsGgEZfbs/s1600/Mickey%2BBaker%2B-%2BThe%2BWildest%2BGuitar.jpg

bummer. RIP, Mickey.

About half a year too late to be turning over in his grave re: the Pitbull sample.

Seriously, though, RIP.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cadillacs-singer-earl-carroll-dead-at-75-20121127

RIP Spain Rodriguez:

http://comicsbeat.com/rip-spain-rodriguez/

Re "Speedo": another song I identify with Scorsese (Goodfellas, first time we meet Jimmy Conway). One of the greatest fast doo-wop songs ever.